my mother told my sister and I that if you played with balloons in the kitchen when she was cooking they would create static electricity and attract a thunder storm and you would get struck by lightening. especially if you made them make that squeaky sound she hated.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- I used to believe that when lightening struck at night, it was turning the world into day for a few seconds. — Kristine
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I used to believe thunder was the sound of God rearranging his furniture.Anon
- I used to think that thunder was god bowling. My sister told me that.— Eli
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.